Or you may want a loan or credit-card payment processed immediately to avoid high fees from payees.

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EBay charges a fee for each item sold, and receives a fee for each payment processed by PayPal.

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If you agree with the state's estimate, you can have your refund (or payment) processed very quickly.

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Kolontyrskiy, 80, knowingly processed fraudulent applications for payment while employed with the Article 2 Fund, according to court documents.

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Payment volume grew 11% and processed transactions grew 6.3%.

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According to NCR, the payment details are encrypted and the transaction is securely processed by a cloud-based system.

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In some European countries, a payment received after early morning will not even be processed until the following day.

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Due to the tremendous rise in mobile payment users, we forecast the number of transactions processed by Visa to grow to 82 million by 2017.

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With the rapid rise in use of debit and credit card as a preferred mode of payment over cash and check, the number of transactions processed by Visa has grown steadily by 10% in the last couple of years, except 2008 when the economic downturn caused transaction volumes to drop by almost 11%.

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This new breed of company is leveraging its relationships with the payment networks and handling the behind-the-scenes routing to ensure that transactions are processed through the cheapest path, which is often the debit network.

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